River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-04-07
IN THE EAST.

a furious storm and gale swept OVER
the New England coast Saturday afternoon
and evening and it was reported that the
CUnard steamer Scythia, with 500 people
ON board, went ashore off Scituate, Mass 6
miles from Minot's Light. Owing 10 the fu-
~ OF the storm. which interrupted telegraph
communication, up to :: 30 a. m. Sunday,
nothing definite had been learned OF the
/ fate, OF the steamer and IL was impossible 10
send out wrecking steamers. During all
I che night from early evening furious
storm prevailed throughout New England,
/ the wind blowing from 40 to 80 miles an
hour and from TO ~ inches of SNOW falling.
IL happily turned out that the report
regarding the Scythia being wrecked was
erroneous, the gallant Cunarder hauing ont
ridden tine storm. the only damage being A.
hours delay and the great anxiety awakened
/ for her safety. She landed at 3 =. IN, Sun
day, at Boston harOor.
Heavy SHOWS prevailed throughout
/ Nova Scotia during the last days Of March,
completely demoraizing inter-colonial rail
rOad traffic. a Halifax telegram of tia 3Jth
states: Another storm ragged last night be
/ tween Camp BelltOn and st Flavie. greatly
retardlng the work of clearing the road
+ Hundreds of men are engaged ploughing
/ and shoVeling thr )ugh the snow, but il Is
I hard 10 predict wha their task viii be COM
pleted. The train which left Quebec Fri
/ day with mails and passengers for England
1 is still stuck ia the snow. IN some portions
4 the snow is many feet deep and blows back
/ on the track as fast as removed.
The New York Mail q Express says
/ that Father Curran, the former assistant
pastor of st. Stephens Church, has been
| sent to the monastery at HObOken for 10
/ DAYS penance, because he S oke at the Nc
/ Glynn meeting at JOneswoOd aud was on
4 the platform of the Academy of Music last
/ Monday night during DR. Mctilyuns address
| OIL Gross OF the New Crusade IL was
/ stated AT the ATchiopiscopal palace that
\ Father Curran's punishment was for Coun-
| teDauciug a suspended priest who was in
+ contumacy to the head Of the church.
Al Troy. y. Y, on the 29th. the
/ CasweH building, occupied principally by
I Fessenden. Lambert a Tower dry goods
I dealers. was destroyed by fire and She front
/ OF the Boardman building was damaged.
/ Several Of the occupants of the building
had narrow escapes. The fire originated in
I the Caswell building in the basement. The
4 tiremen say here was something mysterious
/ abOut the rapid spread of the iiames as the
/ fire burst out in several places at once.
( Loss, SlgO00J; insurance Sl33oto.
At New Haven. Conn. on the lst
about $50 painters, comprising the painters
union went out On a strike because Of the
( refusal of the bosses 10 COncede shorter
hours of labor and pay for oVerwurk. The
plumbers gas and steam filters also went
ont on q strike. They number about fifty.
Their demand Is for shorter hours, pay for
overtime, and double pay on holidays.
At Ingersoll. Ont, on the 4th. a
milldam was torn open by frtshet and
tenement house occupied bv four families
! was swept away by the Hood and wrecked.
( John Bowman and his daughter, young
man named Mclean, and a child whose
name is unknown were drowned, and a
man named Laird and his daughter are
missing.
At Reading. Pa, during Monday
4 forenoon, 9Th inst, large quantity II
/ dynamite used for blasting and stored in n
+ frame shanty on the outskirts OF the city
I exploded. Andrew Lusti had both legs
/ broken OF and viii die. Two Italians We're
/ fearluliy injured. one having his body torn
open. Samuel hertz was also badly hurt.
Secretary Loefller. of the Western
Window Glass Association, at Pittsburgh,
states that the manufacturers would posi-
1 lively refuse TO grant the demands of the
mixers and teasers for 10 per cent advance
I in wages. The meu claim that the recent
advance on glass entities them to an in
crease.
! Officers of the Utica police force ar
rived at the suspension bridge, y. y. and
later left with Charles ORorke, the sus-
pected express robber, and his wife. a
! large Colts revolver and a mask were
/ found in his possession. ORourke SAYS he
I is a native Of Texas and a cowboy by pro
Z iesslOn.
\ St. Adams, Vt, dispatch of March
50. says The worst blizzard since 1869
prevailed throughout lower Canada today,
! and placed an embargo upon railroad
] traffic between north New England and
I Canadian points The temperature is near
zero. The wind is blowing terrible gale.
The w~rkmen ut the ruins OF the
/ Richmond House fire, in Buffalo, y. Y,
/ found portions of a charred human body en-
( tirely beyond recognition. The remains
I were taken out in pieces and put IN "a box.
/ Ii Is thought TO be the dead body of Mark
( Osborne, the day clerk
The report IS confirmed of the loss of
( the steamer Eagle on the shoals near
Funk island, Buena Vista bay, Nova
I Scotia. and there is nothing to snow that
any of the 5jn ON board we're saved. The
/ indications point TO a boiler explosion es
! the cause of the calamity.
4 party of sealers went from the
/ shore of the channel on the west coast of
Newfoundland on a sealing expedition
The ice moved SeaWard. carrying the men
/ with it. Two bodies have been recovered
/ from the ice foe. The men had been
! frozen to death.
Ex-senator Elbridge G. Lapham.
who Is dangerously i'll at Canandaigua,
( Y. Y. is seveuty-threa years OF age Ee
Was elected to the United States senate
July -, 1881, to succeed Roscoe Conlling,
/ resigned
/ 3Two freight rainscollided at Bolivar
Pa, on the 9Th, and two cars Of cotton took
4 fire and burned. The road was blocked for
4 hours by the wreck and the loss sustained
/ by the Pennsylvania company was quite
I large
1t is ascertained that the loss by the
Express robbery on the train near Utica,
/ \. y, on the ;0th ult., was 5000. The Elk
I press messenger was shot through the upper
part of the right arm, the bail passing
/ around the shoulder, making an ugly
4 wound.
/ On the Ist inst. at a meeting OF
4 Pennsylvania coal miners at Irwin, Pa, the
proposition of the coal company TO pay 60c
I per ton for mining for one year was ac
CePted under protest.
! Hon. J. G.. Blaine. accompanied by
! one Of his sons and Hon. S. B. Elkins, left
/ New York Tuesday for short southern
trip after which he visits his daughter,
Mrs. Lieut.. Col. Coppinger IN the Indian
territory
The annual meeting Of the Bell
| Telephone company was held Tuesday and
I the showing made that the net earnings
/ for lSSi. were S2,uOO,O0O, on the capital Of
! S;OUU0,l00.
( At Everson. Pa, March 81, the Vance
House and two buildings a l,oining aurned.
I The people in the ho; escape safely,
/ though greatly fright-ned. Loss l2tOo.
At Boston, Mass, March 80. at n
meeting of hs directors Of the Union
. Pacific road President Adams and the
/ former eff,srs were reel cted.
John G. SAKE. the poet. died Mt
Albany. y. Y. NJ rch 81. The interment
OF his remains viii take place at Green
WOOD, in BrooAyn.
The Pennsylvania Il. r.. on its New
( York and Pennsylvania divisions lights
and heats itspassenger cars by electricity.
BY boiler explosion, March 81, in
Nagle's boiler works, at Erie, Pa, three men
were scalded TO death.
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